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Faculty member, Lagos Business School (LBS), Dr. Olayinka David-West, has said that Financial Technology (FinTech) companies will not displace banks in their competition for market share and provision of financial services to customers.k j<\/p>\n

She spoke at the 2018 Finance Correspondents Association of Nigeria (FICAN) Annual Workshop help at the weekend in Lagos.<\/p>\n

David-West, who was represented by Faculty Member, LBS, Prof. Olawale Ajai Ajai, spoke on the theme: \u2018Banks, FinTechs and Nigeria\u2019s Financial Inclusion Journey\u2019 said banks that fail to innovate will however lose their market share to the FinTechs.<\/p>\n

He said that banks needed to embrace innovation if they want to succeed.<\/p>\n

She said that 40 per cent of adult Nigerians have bank account while 9.2 per cent used informal financial services as at 2017. According to her, three per cent of the account holders used mobile money services.<\/p>\n

She described FinTechs as small and innovative startup companies that develop financial technology and related products.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn practice, Financial Technology is not the exclusive domain of the FinTechs as more traditional banks, microfinance institutions and development organizations make use of financial technology. Banks and other financial services providers are important actors in scaling up FinTech solutions. Scale is important, both financially and digitally, to include the vast amount of people and companies at the bottom of the pyramid,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She said the financial services sector has witnessed digital entrepreneurship in the form of FinTech majorly because they are highly innovative, inexpensive startup skillset, very entrepreneurial and passionate and have no defined guidelines\/regulations.<\/p>\n

She said FinTechs can work with banks as facilitators to deliver financial services to the under-banked and the unbanked.<\/p>

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She said there are more Nigerians without bank accounts than those that have and it is important and a crying necessity to move more people into the financial ecosystem.<\/p>\n

This is a national economic emergency. It is important done about it urgently.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll over the world, particularly in developing countries, technology can only go so far if you look deeply at the issue of access not translating to inclusion. Obviously, you want to increase the reach and the innovation that technology can provide, we will still have these issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFinTechs have provided useful services, not only in point of view of complementarities with the formal financial services. In terms of helping the sector delivers its traditional services more efficiently. Even in terms of innovations that allows for partnerships or greater interface between various players. They have introduced a budding platform for innovation for the banking and financial services by their disruptive effect on the industry. It is going to be a challenge to the banks not by way of being driven off of rendering banking services. They are not going to displace bankers, but they are going to displace some banks definitely,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n

Also speaking, Managing Director, Proshare, Femi Awoyemi, said banks see FinTechs more as partners than threats. He said that FinTechs are supposed to provide digital financial services to the unbanked.<\/p>\n

According to him, financial inclusion has been declining since 2014 and has widened about 20 basis points.<\/p>\n

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Deputy Director, Taiwo Oladimeji said regulation for the FinTech is done by the department adding that Nigeria\u2019s payment system remains one of the best in the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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